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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:52:42 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       "Richard B. Johnson" <linux-os@analogic.com>, stable@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] fix remap_pte_range BUG
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* Hugh Dickins (hugh@veritas.com) wrote:
> Out-of-tree user of remap_pfn_range hit kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:1112!
> It passes an unrounded size to remap_pfn_range, which was okay before
> 2.6.12, but misses remap_pte_range's new end condition.  An audit of
> all the other ptwalks confirms that this is the only one so exposed.

Thanks Hugh, queued to -stable.
-chris